Later Life
According to the 13th-century Norman verse The Song of Dermot and the Earl, Fitzharding acted as an intermediary between Dermot MacMurrough, the exiled King of Leinster, and Henry II in Dermot's attempts to raise Norman support for his planned recapture of Leinster. The song tells that Dermot was a guest in Fitzharding's house in Bristol.
Some time before his death Fitzharding became a canon of the abbey he had founded. He died in 1170.
The ancestry of Robert Fitzharding's wife Eva is not certain. She was founder and first abbess of the Augustinian nunnery of St Mary Magdalen on St Michael's Hill, Bristol, having endowed it with lands in Southmead.
Eva was buried alongside her husband in the choir of St Augustine's Abbey. They are commemorated with a 19th-century stained glass window in the Cathedral, depicting them with Henry II.
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